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Micah 1:11

MICAH—NOTE ON Micah 1:11 Shaphir sounds like “beautiful” and contrasts with nakedness and shame. Zaanan sounds like the Hebrew for “come out.” In fear, the trembling inhabitants do not come out for battle. Beth-ezel (“House of Taking Away”) expresses lamentation that the village was “taken away,” that is, destroyed.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Micah 1:11. _INHABITANT OF SAPHIR_] _Sapher, Sepphoris_, or _Sephora_, was the strongest place in Galilee. - _Calmet_. It was a city in the tribe of Judah, between Eleutheropolis and Ascalon. -...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    PASS YE AWAY - (literally, Pass thou (fem.) away to or for yourselves), disregarded by God and despised by man) pass the bounds of your land into captivity. THOU INHABITANT OF SHAPHIR, HAVING THY SHAM...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATION THE FIRST PROPHETIC MESSAGE CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Micah 1:1) _ 2. Judgment announced (Micah 1:2) 3. The destruction of Samaria (Micah 1:6) 4. The lamentation o...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DIRGE ON ISRAEL'S DOWNFALL. This is a difficult and corrupt passage, playing on the names of towns and villages which are chosen for their assonances or their ominous suggestions, in a way impossi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PASS YE AWAY: i.e. go into exile. SAPHIR, HAVING THY SHAME, &C. Here we have contrast. Saphir. Beautytown, with beauty shamed; now _es Suafir._ INHABITANT OF ZAANAN CAME NOT FORTH. Hebrew not gone f...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _inhabitant_ The word in the Hebrew is feminine, the population of the city being (as often, e.g. Isaiah 1:8) personified as a virgin. _Saphir_ as if Fair town (a play on the name). _Zaanan_ The Zen...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _MICAH WEPT OVER GOD'S JUDGMENT -- MICAH 1:8-12_ : Samaria's wickedness had spread even to Jerusalem. It was so heart breaking to Micah that he said, "I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and vi...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    PASS YE AWAY, &C.— _Take care thou that inhabitest Saphir_ [a city in the tribe of Judah] _to pass away naked and in disgrace. The inhabitants of Zaanan_ [another city in the tribe of Judah] _shall no...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SAMARIA TO BE DESTROYED. Micah 1:6-11 RV. Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I wil...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing. PASS YE AWAY - literally...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:11 Shaphir, (d-5) Beautiful town. Zaanan (e-13) Coming forth, Joshua 15:37 . Beth-ezel. (f-22) Neighbouring house. will (g-24) Or '... forth; the lamentation of Beth-ezel will.' shelter. (h-29) Or '...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SAPHIR] 'beauty-town' with its beauty shamed. ZAANAN] in sound like the Heb. for 'outgoing.' The town of outgoings shall be straitly shut up. IN THE MOURNING, etc.] RV 'the wailing of Bethezel shall t...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGMENT ON SAMARIA AND JUDAH Sargon destroyed Samaria, the capital of North Israel, 722 or 721. Micah, about 720 b.c., declaring (Micah 1:6) that Samaria's fall has been due to its sin, announces a l...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF MICAH ‘_People, the *LORD told you what goodness is. This is what the *LORD wants you to do. Be fair to ot...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Shaphir is the name of a city. Shaphir means ‘beautiful’. Shaphir was a beautiful city. But its people will soon be prisoners. The *Assyrians will take its people away to another country. They will ma...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SAPHIR... ZAANAN. — The sites of these cities, like that of Aphrah, are a matter of conjecture. They were probably south-west of Jerusalem, the prophet following the march of the invading army. THE I...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עִבְרִ֥י לָכֶ֛ם יֹושֶׁ֥בֶת שָׁפִ֖יר עֶרְיָה ־בֹ֑שֶׁת...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MICAH THE MORASTHITE Micah 1:1 SOME time in the reign of Hezekiah, when the kingdom of Judah was still inviolate, but shivering to the shock of the fall of Samaria, and probably while Sargon the dest...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S WITNESS AGAINST HIS CHOSEN Micah 1:1-16 Micah was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea. Jeremiah quotes from him. Compare Micah 3:12 and Jeremiah 26:18. In Micah 1:1-4 the prophet _summons the n...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The first message of Micah consists of a summons, a proclamation of Jehovah, and a prophetic message based on the proclamation. This division ends with an account of the intenuption of the false proph...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of (k) Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall (l) receive of you his standing. (k) These were citi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Place. In Samaria. In the Hebrew, the beautiful place is expressed by the word Shaphir, which some take for the proper name of a city. (Challoner) --- It is thought that St. Jerome has given the sense...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I do not trespass on the Reader with observations on what is here said; it is sufficient to remark, that the Prophet is speaking of the low estate of the Church, and he calls in the neighboring nation...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to Israel, and so far with...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet here addresses the cities which were on the borders of the kingdom of Israel, and through which the enemy would pass in entering the kingdom of Judah. He therefore bids the inhabitants of...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Lord speaks in this book from His temple, and addresses all the peoples-the whole earth. That is to say, He takes His place upon His earthly throne to judge the whole earth, in testimony against a...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    PASS YE AWAY, THOU INHABITANT OF SAPHIR,.... A village, according to Eusebius l, between Eleutheropolis and Ashkelon; perhaps the same with Sephoron; it is mentioned among the cities of Judah, in the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing. Ver. 11. _Pass ye away, tho...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Declare ye it not in Gath_ Lest the Philistines triumph. The words seem to be taken out of David s lamentation over Saul and Jonathan, 2 Samuel 1:20, where see the note. _Weep ye not at all_ Or, _wee...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir (fair-view), HAVING THY SHAME NAKED, in shameful nakedness, also robbed by the enemy; THE INHABITANT OF ZAANAN (outlet). CAME NOT FORTH IN THE MOURNING OF BETH-...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Lamentation Over Judah's Chastisement...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    INHABITANT: _ Heb._ inhabitress SAPHIR: Or, thou that dwellest fairly ZAANAN: Or, the country of flocks BETHEZEL: Or, a place near...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-16 The prophet laments that Israel's case is desperate; but declare it not in Gath. Gratify not those that make merry with the sins or with the sorrows of God's Israel. Roll thyself in the dust, as...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PASS YE AWAY: the imperative is here put for the future, and the prophet does here foretell and threaten what shall befall this people, they shall go before the enemy into captivity. _Saphir_ denotes...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Micah 1:11 by H5674 (H8798) naked H6181 shame H1322 inhabitant H3427 (H8802) Shaphir H8208 inhabitant H3427 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A LAMENT FOR THE CITIES OF JUDAH (MICAH 1:10). These cities lay in the path of Sennacherib as he advanced on Jerusalem after defeating the Egyptian army, and subjugating Philistia, and they illuminat...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel. Impending judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Micah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: There comes a time when men who have persisted in sin must face ruin without...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Micah 1:1. _Micah the Morasthite,_ alluding to a village in the tribe of Judah, near the city of Eleuthera, which distinguishes him from the prophet Micaiah, who foretold the defeat of Ahab. 1 Kings 2...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 1:10.] The Prophet thinks now of the malicious joy of heathen neighbours. Ten places are mentioned in Micah 1:10 to depict what would happen in them. In most cases the things sai...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1:1-2:13 Part I. THREATENINGS AND JUDGMENTS ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH, WITH PREDICTION OF EVENTUAL DELIVERANCE. MICAH 1:1 The...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to the book of Micah. As is the very typical opening of most of the books of the prophets, The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and He...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 16:37; Isaiah 16:2; Isaiah 20:4; Isaiah 47:2; Isaiah 47:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Pass ye away — The imperative is here put for the future; they shalt go into captivity. Saphir — Probably Samaria and Jerusalem. Naked — Stript by the conquering enemy. Zaanan — It is thought, this wa...

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